Thirty Years On: Leadership Convergence between Newer and Older Universities. HEPI Policy Note 37

Autor/in	Selva-Radov, Rohan
Institution	Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) (United Kingdom)
Titel	Thirty Years On: Leadership Convergence between Newer and Older Universities. HEPI Policy Note 37
Quelle	(2022), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Leadership; Institutional Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Tenure; College Presidents; Educational Policy; Educational Change; United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Führung; Führungsposition; Ausland; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform
Abstract	In May 2022, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) published "Digging In? The Changing Tenure of UK Vice-Chancellors. HEPI Policy Note 34" (ED623233), which measured the lengths of tenure of vice-chancellors at long-standing United Kingdom (UK) universities. However it omitted the institutions which were granted university status to then polytechnics as well as Central Institutions in Scotland from the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act (1992). This Policy Note extends the analysis of vice-chancellors' tenures to these institutions, using a similar methodology to the previous publication. A primary aim of the 1992 reforms was to end the old binary divide between vocational and academic education and allow for greater diversity in the university sector. While this Policy Note does not seek to evaluate the success -- or otherwise -- of the 1992 Act, it shows that the tenure of vice-chancellors is one area in which differences between older universities and former polytechnics have narrowed. At the time of their conversion into universities, the polytechnics' directors had been in post on average for 1.4 years longer than their vice-chancellor counterparts, while the gap in 2022 is just 0.25 years. Two metrics were used to measure tenure: 'current tenure', the length of time that a serving vice-chancellor has been in post, and 'full tenure', the duration of a vice-chancellor's term on departing their role. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01